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Atoll   Listen
noun
Atoll  n.  A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.






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"Atoll" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dennison declared. "Either he is lying or the Catwick is a blind. The only chance he'd have would be somewhere in the Sulu Archipelago; and this time of year the pearl fleets will be as thick as flies in molasses. Of course if he is aware of some deserted atoll, why, there might be ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean; and, on the inside, surrounding a calm expanse of water which, from reflection, is of a bright, but pale, green colour." Keeling atoll, outside which, at less than a mile and a half distance, no bottom was found with a line 7,200 feet in length, having been fully described, and an account given of all other known atoll systems, the peculiarities of the great barrier ...
— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany



Words linked to "Atoll" :   Eniwetok, Midway Islands, bikini, coral reef, Kwajalein



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